AAAA Records

Find out just what an AAAA record is really, exactly when it’s utilized and if you should create one for your domain name.

An AAAA record is an Internet protocol address within the newly launched IPv6 format and it comprises of eight groups of hexadecimal digits, in contrast to the IPv4 IPs, which include 4 groups of numbers between 1 and 255. An illustration of an IPv6 address is 3014:0d43:23a3:2354:1320:8f3b:2635:3254 and with this format the amount of IPs which can be created is many times bigger than the number of the IPv4 addresses. Each domain has its website hosting server Internet protocol as a record and in essence, this unique record informs the domain name where the website for it is located. Depending on the system which the provider employs, the record will be called A (IPv4) or AAAA (IPv6). Changing this record permits you to host your site with one company and your email messages with a different one, so if you choose to use this sort of redirection to forward a domain name to a server that uses an IPv6 address, you'll have to set up an AAAA record for it.

: AAAA Records in Shared Hosting

If you use a service with a third-party company and you need to set up an AAAA record to forward a domain or a subdomain to their system, you are going to be able to do that with just a couple of clicks within the Hepsia Control Panel, included with our shared hosting packages. When you log in, you need to visit the DNS Records section where you will find all the records for every domain address or subdomain hosted inside the account. Setting up a new record is as easy as clicking on a button, picking the type from a drop-down menu, which will be AAAA in this case, and then inserting the value, or the actual IPv6 address, in a text box. As an additional option you are able to change the TTL value (Time To Live), which determines how long the record is functioning after you change it or delete it in the future. The new AAAA record is going to be working in only an hour and will propagate around the world two or three hours later, so the hostname for which you have created it will start forwarding to the new hosting server.; AAAA Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

As our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform supports AAAA records, you will be able to create one without difficulty for any domain name or subdomain that you host inside a semi-dedicated server account from our company and the new record is going to propagate within the hour, so you can start using the services of any other provider you forward the domain/subdomain to in no time. You are able to create the record from the DNS Records section of your Hepsia hosting CP where you will also find all the other records that were set up automatically or you have created manually previously. The set up of the new AAAA record is as basic as picking out the needed domain name or subdomain and the AAAA type from simple drop-down menus, typing the IPv6 address within a text box and saving the modification. You are going to be able to modify the record anytime if required. If the other provider requires a certain TTL value for the new record, you will be able to change this setting too. The Time To Live option defines how long an existing record will keep functioning after you modify it or erase it and the time is in seconds.